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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Saturday, January 2, 2010

For the past 16 months or so, Jen has made it her goal in life to post here every single day. And for the most part, she's succeeded.

On vacation? The post goes up.Christmas day? The post goes up.Husband dying in the hospital? The post goes up.

The hardest part about this is that she has to be funny, or at least try to be, with every post. This is, well, starting to take its toll. ("No, really, Sweetie, that tic is barely noticeable.") Cake Wrecks was built on funny, but when daily deadlines take precedence, the funny can suffer - and that's not good for anyone.

So starting today, we're gonna be cutting back on Saturday posts, since it's our slowest day. We'll still do our best to post every other day of the week, but if we do miss one from time to time, just know it's in the best interests of Jen's sanity, the quality of the posts, and Cake Wrecks as a whole.

Thanks for understanding, guys. Here's to much, much more facial-tic-free Wreckage and laughter.

Aww, you guys both deserve a day off. Your posts (yes, yours, too, Jon!) bring such joy. Thanks for your dedication to this blog and sharing your warped (and wonderful) sense of humor with the rest of the world. Honestly, sometimes the blog entry is better than the cakes themselves. :) Hope this new year brings you abundant blessings! -Jules

Honestly, I was wondering when this would come, I mean, really? Jen, you post EVERY SINGLE DAY... I love it, of course, but, I would also love for you to stay healthy enough to keep posting :) So, even though, I'll miss the post terribly, I'm glad you're doing this for your own sanity!

So, THANK YOU! For doing such a great job, I'm definitely addicted. And take some time to yourself and your hubby. I'm sure you need it!

I must say, and I hope everyone supports me for it, even though I will miss my Saturday blog, I know that it's about time Jen took some time off, and it will help keep the funny in the other cake wrecks.... I think that sounded bad, what I meant was, good on you Jen take all the time you need (and that tic is adorable :P )

Personally, I'd rather see fewer posts if it means higher quality funny. No one can be "on" all the time. Nor should they be. Your blog is great for so many reasons. So I hope you take days off on a regular basis. Everyone deserves some quality down time so they can be at their best. Enjoy your regular breaks!

I've long wondered how you've kept us this pace. This blog is such fun and appreciated by so many, I am sure we would all rather Jen keep her sanity (therefore allowing John to keep his *wink* )than to have her lose it and end up deker8ting cakes fuhnetiklee 4 a big chain store.

Good to hear! I'm just glad you're not taking another route to get rest. When I read changes I thought you might be oh say... merging with another blogging network and allowing someone else to begin making posts... like some other blogs have... But it's good to hear you'll be taking a rest! I don't mind not reading an article once (or twice) a week.

Hmmm, Saturday is the slowest day...I guess that means that most folks start their work day reading the blog. How many have snorted Coke or coffee onto the work computer screen? How many have tried to stifle the giggle with tears rolling down their cheeks so that the boss doesn't notice? Thanks for being our week day/work day sanity, and enjoy your week end sanity retreat!!PS. WHY are you moderating posts on your day off?!? ;)

I don't think anyone will mind if there aren't posts every.single.day. We'll survive! Posting daily is hard work; I don't know how you did it for so long. There's plenty of old wreckiness for us to look at! :D

Well of course, take a break! But please know that all the well-wishes and comments about "quality over quantity" don't mean that we haven't been splitting our sides lately. You are always hilarious! So go ahead and rest once in a while, but don't totally regain your sanity. A little crazy is funny!Sarah

I was just thinking yesterday that it had to be taking its toll... being funny ALL the time. After all the bakers HAVE to be catching on by now, hiring proof readers and all. IF it turns out you need a second break a week could it be like Wed... not sure how I would be with back to back days lacking wrecks!!!Thank you.wv: synes, physical evidence of psychic overload (usually brought on by the unrelenting need to be amusing to others) - a tic is one of the synes that you need to pace yourself.

I have a blog and at times post pretty regularly and other times skip a month or two. Just the other day I was thinking about how I'm so glad I only have 12 followers as opposed to THOUSANDS like you do. I couldn't handle the pressure of it, that's for sure. So props to you, Jen. Do what you gotta do.

Very good move, guys! Everyone deserves a day off on a regular basis to recharge their batteries, and you are no exception. As one of the other folks said earlier, it's better that you guys cut back a little than quit the project completely.

Personally, I think sanity is overrated. But, Jen, you are priceless--and besides, I take days off from my job. Why should you have to work seven days a week? Don't kill yourself. If you do, we'll have to suffer wreckiness without your astute commentary. GET SOME REST, WOMAN!

We love you and look forward to your posts. You can take a day off and we'll still be here. In fact, we'll be here if you took two or three days off. Or if you said "I'm going on vacation - catch you on the flip side." We'll be there too.Enjoy your day off!

I've been cruising back over Cakes Gone By , and have found lots and lots of coffee-snorting material. Bless you for this rich vein of belly-laughs, perturbing icing-related imagery, and plain weirdness.

People who don't blog (or otherwise write every day) may not realize how hard it is after awhile to come up to the bat yet again, to smack that CCC out of the park. [pause to enjoy the image]

People who succeed at this demanding job are very rare. Blogging funny raises the rarity to another level altogether.

That Jen and John together share the sense of humour that has me slipping helplessly off the side of my office chair -- well I stand in AWE (or possibly Alue.)

I was just thinking as I came to your site today how amazing it is that there's new stuff every day. Don't they have a life? ;) Glad to see you're taking time for your life, and looking forward to wreckin' six days a week.

I'm always amazed that your posts are so consistently hilarious and prompt. I honestly don't know how you do it day in and day out. So, go off on Saturday and have some fun. Get a hot rock massage! Or, attend a trekkie convention...or something. :)

Hey, don't worry about skipping Saturdays! As much as I love my daily cake wrecks, I can surely live through a wreck-less (hehe) day once in a while. Also, guys, I've been surprised about your consistent funniness, so don't worry about that. Greetings from the Netherlands!

Sugars, you guys are a shiny moment of joy in a Lot of people's days, I don't think any one of us would want that to be at the expense of Your happiness. Please, yes, take care of yourselves, we'll enjoy your posts all the more knowing there's no unethical slave-labour involved :)

I was going to say "Stay Sane!" but then realized that the quality of these posts depends on your in-sanity so instead...."stay only as sane as you need to be to remain healthy and use your powers of insanity for good, not evil!" hehehe ;) Enjoy your days off...they are well deserved! :)

Yay for the commenters! I was terrified that there would be a bunch of grumblers (but I'm newish to cake wrecks)...Jen brings so many belly laughs, if she needs a day off a week to keep it up---GO FOR IT.thanks for the great blog. I check it every day (except Saturday, going forward)Stacey

Jen & husband of Jen,I was wrecky before wrecky was cool. Well, it's always been cool (everyone knows THAT), but I've been in wrecklove and reading you since Day 1 (maybe Day 9, or Day 12, but you see my point).

But when those days rolled on, and on, and on, and on without interruption, I asked myself: "Self, how the wreck does she do it? Are there little mini-Jens? No that can't be it ... that'd be like a cupJen, and I don't see her going for that. It is a mystery."

Mystery solved. You're human, sweets. (I swear, no pun intended; that is my fave term of endearment. It just happens to sound exponentially cheesetastic in this forum. Can't help it.)

You're human. Shut the wreck up sometimes, or I'll send a CCC with an airbrushed message to remind you.

I suspect John might be partly to *blame* for this decision...God only knows how much convincing it took to get Jen to take a well-deserved day off. Good for you, John, for taken care of your wife!. ;)

Sunday Sweets will be even sweeter with a little break for the rest of us on Saturday. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for regularly brightening all of our days!

Would you consider taking Sundays off as well and use that day to post an "oldie but goodie"? They would be new for recent readers, and for us long term readers, well, I can't imagine not laughing all over again!

I'm still impressed you managed posts most days of the week. I struggle on a five days a week schedule and constantly finding myself dipping into the excuse bucket for mental health vacations. If it helps the quality of the site and Jen's sanity, I'm all for the occassional missed post.

Taking a day off sounds like a good idea :) But may I suggest, that in addition to the day(s) off, you do a "random" post each week. Just post some random pictures from your collection, no commentary needed. It would give you a little break, but allow you to post more often.

Yay! I'm so glad you're cutting back because posting every day is not something a sane, healthy person should do!! Love the blog, and I would love it any number of days per week that you are able to do it! Thanks Jen & John for all of your work!

Well, everyone else in the known universe only works five days a week (I may be exaggerating...) why should you be any different? Take some time to breathe! No need to be a slave to our amusement!Melissa in Maine

Hope you enjoy your day off !! My cake wreck withdrawals will stop eventually ... Thank goodness I can thumb through my book when I need a little FIX!! Thanks Jen you need to rest !! I look at cake wrecks to unwind and forget about all the insanity of daily living !! It wouldn't be right if you didn't get to get a break from your day to day as well!! Thanks for all of the fun !! xoxoxo

I'm in total support of this. You guys are awesome & wonderful & personally think you should have a weekend, rather than just one day alone. And a vacation. And, without doubt, the ability to worry about a loved one in the hospital rather than a posting deadline. (Yikes.)

Jen & John, thanks for the last year of laughs & giggles....may your new year be everything you wish it to be. Including some time for yourselves.

Take a well-deserved day off (or two or three or . . .) and enjoy it. And thank you for making me laugh every day. I wish I had a nickel for each time my husband and I have said to each other, "Have you seen Cake Wrecks today?"

Wreck on guys! Got the book for xmas after being a devoted reader. It was the hit of the holiday - even with my sister-in-law who was once among the ranks of the professional wreckerators. Thanks for making 2009 a whole lot funnier!The Fandrich Family

Really, my husband may thank you for taking a day off! Checking CW is part of my daily, morning ritual and any less time I spend on the computer is better for him (and probably me, lol). I would rather have the same quality of content in a lesser amount than have the awesome wreckiness of the site suffer by trying to keep up with daily posts. As a stay at home mom and wife to a man who is gone a lot for work....I most definitely understand the need to take a day off!

While I believe Sanity is highly over-rated, I do understand your position, and hope you take three day weekends now and again. You are one of the best sites on the interwebs, and one of the few to do a book tour! Your Awesomeness knows no bounds. Thanks for all you do.

I've always thought it remarkable that you guys post daily, in part because it's a bit face-palmy that there are enough bad cakes to keep that up!

I'll keep coming back regularly even if it's not daily, as long as it's roughly weekly, and I'm sure others will too.

And of course, you'll now have Saturdays free to, say, come to the Austin cake show on the last weekend of February and then use the Sunday to show the super-spiffy SCI-FI-THEMED CAKES that will be there. It will be a major nerd fest of cakey goodness. I know at least one organizer has already invited you guys...you will come, right? Think of all the folks who couldn't come to the second book signing in Austin and how they could come get books from you at the cake show itself (like me!).

I've been amazed that you've kept up the pace this long! I don't know of any other bloggers who post daily - Fugly Horse of the Day posts five days a week, but she also recycles old posts and takes vacations. And I'd imagine ranting about horse abuse is easier than writing humor!

Seriously, take as much time as you need. The puns are better when you're feeling it.

you can only give so much...and then it's important to take care of yourself! if you don't, pretty soon you'll run out of stuff to give, which doesn't benefit anyone. you shouldn't feel like you have to apologize either!! your loyal wreckies won't leave you! rest up babe ;)

Heck, I'd be happy if you posted M-W-F and took holidays off as well as the weekends. This is supposed to be FUN for all of us - and that definitely includes you two! We'll all read and laugh, whenever you decide to post. Throw the "schedule" out the window. :-)

We'll just appreciate you all the more when you do post! Anticipation is the greatest aphrodisiac (or so my husband tells me). I think you can see from all the messages here that you are well loved and that we'd rather see you sometimes than not at all!

Every day I run into the living room with my laptop and ask my boyfriend "DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?!" and he replies "CAKE WRECKS TIME!!!" and we squeal like a bunch of idiots. We're so stressed out with school, work, and lack of money, it is a great relief to laugh it up with cake wrecks every day. Give yourself the much needed break you need so we all can continue getting the laughs we need!

Glad to hear you're taking care of yourself and not letting the blog rule your life. I was wondering how you managed it!! I always look forward to your posts, so as someone else mentioned, I'm glad you're taking a day (or two) off just so long as the posts continue!

Hey, guys,I bought two copies of THE BOOK for Christmas presents. They were the last two copies on the shelf.(The bookstore is going out of business, and I got the books at 40% off--how can they DO that?)The nice lady who sold them to me was unfamiliar with Cake Wrecks, so I had her stroll through a few pages with me. She was HILARIATED! ANYway, that was an unintended good deed (my introducing her to youse guys).Your little book made her day funnier; she laughed out loud! Even though she'll soon be unemployed. Laughing makes everything better. Being able to MAKE people laugh is a GIFT.GET IT? We're still going to be here, DUH.>^-.-^<

Your health and sanity are the #1 concerns! Take care of you, because the tears-streaming-down-my-face-from-laughter posts are worth the wait! Also, my sister (whom I introduced to Cake Wrecks) got me "The Book" for Christmas!!! Yay!!!

No worries! Nobody is invincible; only regret is that you didn't decide this before Christmas and New Year's...I'm sure the breaks then would've been even more appreciated! Happy New Year! Wreck on! :)

Everyone has already expressed my sentiments - but just to voice it so you guys hear it - Yes, yes! Take time off whenever you want. We'll all just keep hitting refresh until a new post appears, even if it takes days, weeks, months. We're addicted and we ain't attending no WA (Wreckaholics Anonymous). We'll wait for our fix. Regarding Jen's tic - John, perhaps you should add another charity and raise money for her treatments. We don't want to lose either of you!Hooked on Cwreck

Long time lurker, second time poster.... Your blog makes me laugh so much, but I am so glad you are taking some time for yourself! Don't worry about us. You rest whenever you need to-- we'll still be here!

Thank you so much for all of the heart and wit that you put into posting this blog. I have cried with laughter numerous times on this site, yelling "you gotta come see this!" down the hallway. Thanks so much for the laughs, and enjoy 2010.

Take whatever time you need, whenever you need it-- we want you to be happy so that CW can continue! (God knows bakeries will keep on wreckin'.)

If you want, you could even take a day or two a week, post a cake, and let your readers have at it, if you don't feel like writing that day (though I really love your comments). Wrecked cakes need a home, and you've been providing a great one for them, and we all thank you for that!

I can't believe you guys post as often as you do. You are unbelievable. Take as many breaks as you need. You don't "owe" us anything, and we all appreciate the time and effort you put into this project. We love it!!! Now, go take care of yourselves!

You've had a huge year+, and you deserve to give yourself a break. And it would probably be nice to have a day that didn't look so much like the others. I tell myself that a lot, because all I do right now is chase a small child around all the time and stare at the laundry as it piles up. :) Thanks for the laughs in 2009, and here's to many more to come!

You guys deserve days off every once and a while, it's perfectly understandable.

My parents suggest I become a stand up comedian sometimes, but then I think about things like this. If you have to force the funny, it's not funny. And you can't cancel a last minute show simply because you're not up to it.

Don't listen to anyone who bitches. They're not paying anything, and you started this for fun. So to hell with them.

I've always been amazed at the DAILY blogging. My favorite site would never survive if Jen did not come to the conclusion that that kind of pace and dedication, while amazing, cannot be sustained indefinitely. Rest and recharge ya'll. We'll wait.

When I started reading this blog (thanks to my sister laughing hysterically and getting me hooked) I was surprised that you posted every day! Nice going for SO long!!! Take days off and just surprise us when you post! We will keep peeking in (hourly) until we see new posts!! HAHAHA

I started reading John's post with growing panic until I got to the part of taking *one* day off. Whew! I quite agree that you deserve and need at least one day a week to relax and recharge. I was terrified you both were going to take an extended break.

I am going to ask that you ignore the people suggesting you take off Sunday as well. I love Sunday Sweets as much as the wrecks! I personally wouldn't mind a post from the archives once or twice a week instead.

As I was going to the Cakewreck site today, I swear I said to myself, "They need to take a day off every week." And lo and behold, you are starting to see the same thing! But you really need to take EVERY Saturday off. For goodness sake, even the Almighty commands us to, and taa-daa...Shabbat (seventh day, Sabbath, Saturday) is the day he tells us to do so! So you have the Creator's OK for pete's sake...who else do you need to worry about?!! - Nancy from West Virginia

Creative geniuses and wrecky madwomen need breaks often to recharge and refuel. Such calamity and humor takes a lot of work. We totally want you to thrive via Cake Wrecks, not go insane. Rest is a weekly prescription that's good for all! Know that we care.

Oh thank God. As much as I enjoy the new Wreckage every day, for last few months I've started to be a little unhappy to always see something fresh. Everyone deserves one or two days off every week, and that goes for both of you as well.

Long story short, I've been worrying about you, and I'm glad you're worrying about yourselves.

Don't stress out about the posting, we'll all be here when you get back. Kick up your feet and let your hair down!

Most people get 2 days off from their job. The fact that you've been doing this job (and yes, it takes work to be funny) 7 days a week for 16 months is just amazing. Have fun and get some rest. Mary (of Mary, Tom and Teela)

Bless you both for providing us with laughter and inspiration. I was blown away when the posts kept coming even with you in the hospital. And on Xmas. A day off? Good idea. Maybe eve find someone to do guest posts another day of the week to help take the pressure off.

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